Oldboy (2003), Infernal Affairs (2002), In the Mood for Love (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Company (2002), Empire of the Sun (1987), Happy Together (1997), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hong Kong movies.
Storyline: Marvel's "Doctor Strange" follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City's Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilising a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Plot Keywords: magic, wizard, magician, time loop, alternate dimension, sorcerer, superhero ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man, the film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen, who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film, the sequel centers on Ip's movements in Hong Kong, which is under British colonial rule. He attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun, but faces rivalry from other practitioners, including the local master of Hung Ga martial arts.
Plot Keywords: poverty, rooftop, death, family dinner, water torture, brawl, childhood friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.—David Watson <watson@sgi.com>
Plot Keywords: lesbian, female frontal nudity, nudity, masturbation, female nudity, bare breasts, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suave Dan Hardesty, a convicted murderer, is apprehended by Steve Burke, a police detective, in Hong Kong and accompanied on the SS Maloa headed for San Francisco. On board, Dan romances Joan Ames, a terminally ill socialite. She is unaware that his ultimate destination is San Quentin. Both realize that their time together is fleeting so they make a pact to meet at a Mexican night club on New Years Eve. When they part in San Francisco they know that the odds are against them.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: terminal illness, new year's eve, bartender, bullet, dancing, doctor, drunkenness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.
Plot Keywords: list, road movie, buddy movie, road trip, friendship, journey, caviar ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the aftermath of Fa yeung nin wah (2000), after losing Su Li-zhen, the love of his life, the journalist and author, Chow Mo-wan, returns to Hong Kong to write a book. Obsessed with finishing his new science fiction novel, Chow begins a series of romantic relationships with four different women; however, the more he tries to understand and forget, the more he finds himself haunted by his past. In his novel, a train sets off for a remote, mysterious destination in 2046, where passengers hope to reclaim their lost memories. Now, a maelstrom of beautiful and sad feelings, secret longings, and wild passions govern Chow's life, who's been trying to relive a life-altering experience ever since his doomed affair with Su: an emotionally intense relationship that has defined Chow's life and condemned his future romances. Has time stopped in Room 2046?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: sex scene, writer, 1960s, loneliness, nostalgia, train, old friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: lesbian love, mother daughter relationship, sex, bare breasts, lesbian romance, honor, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.
Plot Keywords: nsa, whistleblower, internet, based on true story, journalism, treason, responsibility ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rose, a Shanhainese songstress singing at nightclubs in HongKong during the 60's, marries an Australian sailor and migrates with her young son and daughter to Melbourne. Her past filled with lost innocence, she begins a cycle of dependence and desperation to create a family for herself and her children, culminating with her affair with Qi, an illegal immigrant from HongKong. Watched through the eyes of her young son, the mother's journey reveals painful truths about the human condition, the love of family and self, and the price we pay for growing up.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: single mother, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, unfaithful wife, traumatic childhood, suicide ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The year is 1959, where Ip Man lives in Hong Kong with his wife and his younger son. Trouble arises when a corrupt property developer and his thugs terrorize the school where Ip Man's son goes to. Ip Man and his disciples have to help the police guard the school day and night. On the other hand, Ip Man has to deal with his wife's terminal sickness, and at the same time faces a challenge from another Wing Chun fighter who ambitiously seeks to claim the Wing Chun Grandmaster title.
Plot Keywords: hong kong, cancer, martial arts, third part, kung fu, martial arts school, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian's (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.
Plot Keywords: humvee, swat team, catfight, head butt, kicked in the stomach, punched in the stomach, punched in the face ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA's top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bishop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship.
Plot Keywords: cia, espionage, mentor protege relationship, rogue agent, shanghai china, gun, rifle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Robert Lomax, tired of working in an office, wants to be an artist. So he moves to Hong Kong to try his hand at painting. Finding a cheap hotel, he checks in, only to find it's used by prostitutes and their "dates" they meet in the bar downstairs. Since he never picks up any of the ladies, they all want to know more about him. Eventually, he does hire one to model for him... and soon falls in love. However, since he's on a limited budget, he can't afford her exclusively, but doesn't want to "share" her with anyone else.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: artist, hong kong, prostitution, spiral staircase, interracial relationship, father daughter relationship, romantic triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Terry is a tough, mercenary, master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's bloodfeud with Terry over a disputed debt.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: shot in the chest, shot in the back, russian roulette, oil tanker, motorcycle, motorboat, knife throwing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the life and career of Martial Arts superstar, Bruce Lee. Haunted by demons. Bruce was taught Martial arts at childhood. Bruce then was told by his father to flee to the United States. There, he opened up a Martial Arts school, then was chosen to be the Green Hornet's sidekick, Kato. Then, his big movie career that included "The Big Boss" and "Enter the Dragon". Fighting many enemies along the way, including his childhood demon.
Plot Keywords: kung fu, racism, wheelchair, mother in law, writer, interracial relationship, filmmaking ...
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